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The True Story Of Adam Blain, A 44-year-old London Lawyer And Family Man Who One Day, Ends Up In A&e After A Series Of Headaches And Consistent Nausea. Expecting To Be Sent Home With A Packet Of Paracetamol, He's Shocked When Harassed Doctors Are Suddenly Offering To Buy Him Gourmet Coffee. Worse Still, The Diagnosis Of A Late-stage Brain Tumour Is Made By His Oncologist Wife. So Far, So Not Funny. Adam, However, Is Determined Not To Slide Into Defeatist Misery, And Approaches The Saga Of Surgery And Chemotherapy With A Chirpy, Irreverent Black Humour. What Else Can He Do When Every Outing Risks Bits Of His Brain Dripping Out Of His Nose Without Warning? Wondering Constantly What The Pear-shaped Part Of His Brain That's Been Removed Is Thinking, And Whether It's Having A Better Time Than He Is, Adam Takes Us Through The Myriad But Necessary Indignities Inflicted On The Brain Cancer Sufferer. A Test, For Example, On Whether He Can He Determine Whether Pictures Of Faces Are Smiling? Something His Wife Is More Than Happy To Help Him Revise For... The 'revision' Involves Me Sitting In A Pub Or Restaurant With Lu Who Makes A Variety Of Different Facial Expressions At Me Covering The Ful

Author

Blain, Adam, author

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781511860611

Rating

4.27 / 5 (103 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14